Maryland became the 7th state to join the United States of America.
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Fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed in a small village in Northern Italy.
Explorer Captain James Cook arrived at Botany Bay in Australia.
Flight attendant Clarabelle 'C.B.' Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was founded.
Mohammed Daoud Khan, the President of Afghanistan, was assassinated in a coup.
